Check out these sources for eBooks, digital audiobooks, and other digital media! Don’t have a library card yet? Apply online to receive a temporary Forbes Library card by mail that will provide… Check out these sources for eBooks, digital audiobooks, and other digital media! Don’t have a library card yet? Apply online to receive a temporary Forbes Library card by mail that will provide access to online resources such as e-books, e-audio and databases. Need help setting up your e-reader or downloading eBooks? Make an appointment with one of our Information Services librarians to get you started. …
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Library History
The Forbes Library opened in 1894, as a result of a bequest by Judge Charles Edward Forbes, who wished to build a public library for the citizens of Northampton. The massive three-story stone building, which is on the Register of Historic Buildings, was designed by William Brocklesby to be completely fire proof with all steel framing and stone, slate, and copper exterior. A complete renovation of the interior was finished in 2001 accentuating man…
Amherst’s public library. Holdings include regional history, genealogy, manuscripts and photographs.
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Digital Amherst is a project of the Jones Library, the public library of Amherst, Massachusetts. It is a pilot project to develop a small but rich online collection of the historic and cultural stories about the town of Amherst and its influence in the Connecticut Valley and beyond.
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Among the collections digitized by UMass Amherst’s Special Collections are over 40,000 items from the W.E.B. Dubois papers including correspondence, writings, and photographs making this a great resource for historians.
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A portal to the rich cultural heritage held in museums, historical societies, colleges, libraries and other cultural repositories in Massachusetts. From this site you can search or browse the digital collections of over 100 member institutions throughout the state for manuscripts, images, historical documents, and sound recordings, providing you with enhanced access and retrieval of information.
Over a hundred organizations are members of Digital Commonwealth. As more of our members contribute their holdings, the variety and quantity of searchable objects will increase, and the richer and more valuable this portal will become.
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Charles Ammi Cutter
Library systematizer extraordinaire by Pip Stromgren [ Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on Saturday, June 26, 2004 ] Hanging over the reference librarians’ desk in Northampton’s Forbes Library is a portrait of a late-middle-aged gentleman wearing a black jacket, white shirt and black bow tie. In contrast to the sparse hair on his head, he sports a lush mustache and gray-flecked beard. There is a hint of a smile on his mouth and…
An electronic almanac of Massachusetts history produced by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
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Book Lists
If you liked… If you liked Into The Wild… If you liked The Inn at Lake Devine… If you liked The Help… If you liked The Glass Castle… If you… If you liked… If you liked Into The Wild… If you liked The Inn at Lake Devine… If you liked The Help… If you liked The Glass Castle… If you liked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… If you liked Animal, Vegetable, Miracle… Book list by genre Taking a Year Colonial India Black & African American Fiction Foodie Lit Steampunk Historical Fiction: World War II …
Local Authors
Local authors and illustrators in western Mass. libraries. Children’s authors are in blue. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Janet Aalfs Unmi Abkin John Allen Anna Alter Edgar C. Alward Louise Appell Margot Apple Christian Appy Micha Archer Epi Arias Emily Arsenault Jeannine Atkins James M. Ault Jr. Joan Axelrod-Contrada B Julianna Baggott Katharine Gratwick Baker Jim Ballard Robert W. Barker Elan Barnehama Lexie Barnes Matthe…
Film Lists
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The David Ruggles Center for Early Florence History & Underground Railroad Studies aims to collect and organize comprehensive copies of all materials pertinent to the early history of Florence and the Underground Railroad in western Massachusetts; providing historical exhibits, lectures and walking tours. The website contains historical and biographical articles on abolitionists and early African American residents.
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